chris holman is ceo of the michigan business network, a statewide business news website and broadcastompany. he is the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees for the nsba. great to see you both. >> good morning. thanks for having us. >> i appreciate you giving us insight into what happened at that meeting. so, mike, let me start with you. what are some of the biggest issue your company and people in your industry and your area of the world are facing and how did the president react to them? >> one of the major things we seem to continually be faced with is the never ending list of regulations that keep coming out of the national labor relations board and the office of economic equal opportunity commission and osha and epa and everyone else just seem to consistently be trying to pile new regulations on small businesses. some of the other proposals coming out that we were anxious to get a chance to talk about, there's so much communication right now about the new immigration reform and, of course, some of our members are concerned with patent reform, businesses have new produc